Please join us in Charlottesville this fall as we begin our 147th season of Harmony, Love, and Brotherhood! Event registrations and ticket sales links will become available as the semester begins. To get the latest news of Glee Club developments, … Continue reading →

The Virginia Glee Club, est. 1871, is one of the ten oldest glee clubs in the United States. A century and a half ago, students at historic American universities (mostly male, nearly all single-gender) often banded together to make music … Continue reading →

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Founded in 1871, the Virginia Glee Club is the oldest musical
organization at the University of Virginia. The Club’s members,
primarily undergraduate students, come from every school and
college within the University. Members consider the group a
“fraternity of talent,” committed to performing at a professional
level, promoting fellowship, and preserving longstanding tradition.
Throughout its history, the Virginia Glee Club has been consistently
recognized as a leader among American men’s choruses,
performing a variety of sacred and secular music in the classical
tradition. The group performed for former President Bill Clinton at
the national celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s 250th birthday and
has also been heard on broadcasts of NBC’s Today Show, National
Public Radio’s Performance Today, Virginia Public Radio, and the
Voice of America. In addition to presenting on-grounds concerts,
the group has toured widely, both domestically and abroad, and
has collaborated with some of the finest women’s choruses in the
eastern and southern United States. The Club toured France in the
summer of 2000, visiting Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Aix en Provence,
Carcassonne, and Nice. More recently, in the spring of 2016, the Club
went on a tour of Argentina, performing all over Buenos Aires, the
largest province in the country. In the Spring of 2017, the Club
performed in Carnegie Hall as part of a concert honoring the legacy
of Martin Luther King Jr. and toured the Southeast.

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Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.